ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2012
A prospective study of overeating, binge eating, and depressive symptoms among adolescent and young adult women.
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- Biological and behavioral pathways from prenatal depression to offspring cardiometabolic risk: Testing the developmental origins of health and disease hypothesis.Developmental psychology · 2024Review
- Risk factors for eating disorders: findings from a rapid review.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Review
- Cardiometabolic Comorbidity Risk in Pediatric Patients With Psychiatric Illnesses: A Case-Control Inpatient Study.Cureus · 2022Article
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- Sexual and physical abuse and identity of the perpetrator: Associations with binge eating and overeating in Project EAT 2018.Eating behaviors · 2021Article
- Disordered eating concerns, behaviors, and severity in young adults clustered by anxiety and depression.Brain and behavior · 2021Article
- Prevalence and early risk factors for bulimia nervosa symptoms in inner-city youth: gender and ethnicity perspectives.Journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
- A cross-sectional examination of the simultaneous association of four emotion regulation strategies with abnormal eating behaviours among women in Japan.Journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
- Anxiety, stress, and binge eating tendencies in adolescence: a prospective approach.Journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeTo investigate the temporal relationship between depressive symptoms and overeating and binge eating among adolescent and young adult females in the United States.
methodsWe investigated incident overeating, binge eating, and depressive symptoms among 4,798 females in the Growing Up Today Study, a prospective cohort study of adolescents and young adults throughout the United States. Participants who reported at least monthly episodes of eating a very large amount of food in a short amount of time in the past year, but not experiencing a loss of control, were classified as overeaters. Those who reported a loss of control while overeating were classified as binge eaters. Depressive symptoms were assessed with the McKnight Risk Factor Survey. Participants were followed between 1999 and 2003. Generalized estimating equations were used for lagged analysis with time-varying covariates. Analyses were adjusted for age, age at menarche, body mass index, and follow-up time.
resultsFemales reporting depressive symptoms at baseline were two times more likely than their peers to start overeating (odds ratio [OR] = 1.9; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.4, 2.5) and binge eating (OR = 2.3; 95% CI = 1.7, 3.0) during the follow-up. Similarly, females engaging in overeating (OR = 1.9; 95% CI = 1.1, 3.4) or binge eating (OR = 1.9; 95% CI = 1.2, 2.9) at baseline were two times more likely than their peers to develop depressive symptoms during the follow-up.
conclusionsThese results indicate that it is important to consider depressive symptoms in overeating and binge eating prevention and treatment initiatives targeting adolescent and young adult females.
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